A consultant for homeschooling families says evidence suggests the ongoing increase in home education could be permanent.
Steve Duvall, director of research for the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), admits that he fully expected the number of homeschool families to sharply drop with the conclusion of the pandemic. But that has not been the case. In fact, research shows that the past two years have seen a rise in homeschooling across all demographics.
“For this current year, I would probably put it like this: The white families and the black families and the Asian families and the Hispanic families all are homeschooling about at the same proportional levels,” he explains
According to data from the National Center for Education Statistics Surveys, 3.8% of white families were homeschooling in 2016; that jumped to 10.9% in 2021 and held relatively constant in 2022 (9.9%). In similar fashion, homeschooling among black families grew from 1.9% (2016) to 11% (2021), then held at 10.3% in 2022. Rates of homeschooling among Asian and Hispanic families from 2021 to 2022 also remained relatively the same: 9.1% to 8% (Asian families), and 14.6% to 13.7% (Hispanic families).
Because the changes occurred among all those groups in 2021 and 2022, Duvall sees reason to believe those increases in homeschooling may be permanent.
“The numbers are maintaining at high rates and so is the diversity of the homeschool population,” he asserts. “So, that’s really pretty big news.”
Meanwhile, because so many students are not reenrolling in public schools, those schools are taking some large financial hits.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
We can thank the pandemic and remote learning for that, remote learning brought the classroom into the home where parents were able to monitor what was being taught. Many were appalled that ,any of the subjects included information that were in conflict with their values and what they were teaching their children. The reaction from the governor of Virginia and the teachers’ unions made parents even more suspicious of what was going on. Finally Merrick Garland and the parents are terrorists order put the cap on it, school boards were deluged and many significantly replaced, soon it can hoped that teachers themselves will come under scrutiny and action taken. The education professionals have fumbled the ball with regards to the classroom, will the lesson be learned?
There is no excuse for not having a merit based hiring system in place.
One only needs to looks at the current administration to see how utterly ridiculous it is to hire based on Democrat guilt.
Now lets see how, PROPERTY TAXES and other ‘school funding’ taxes, fair from this drop in students!
Sir Isaac Newton would be stumped to see some things do NOT come down.
That’s why i have LONG believed, only those who HAVE KIDS In schools, should be paying for those schools.
I agree but what I said was rather you own or rent you should pay the school part of the property tax bill. Say you rent a 1000 foot apt. What does the average 1000 foot home pay in your area. It should be the same. I was called racist because they are low income. I came back with seniors in a fixed income pay.